I am setting up offline files policies for an environment that has laptops - the laptops themselves are all correctly added to OUs that have the offline files policy applied, so this question is more to do with the policy itself rather than its application...
Essentially, there is an issue in which they are synchronising a folder on the file server which is a DFS root for the other subdirectories on the server, the scenario for instance is the following setup.
The file server's name on the network is FILESERV1
The file server's main drive is E: , and E: has the following set up:
E:\UserData\Homes\Sales is shared as \\FILESERV1\Saleshomes$
E:\UserData\Profiles\Sales is shared as \\FILESERV1\Salesprofiles$
Those two paths are the desired folders to synchronise to these laptops.
Currently, the laptops are synchronising the DFS root, which is set up like the following:
E:\DFS is shared as \\FILESERV1\dfs$
E:\DFS\saleshomes is a symlink to the E:\UserData\Homes\Salesfolder - this is all shared as \\FILESERV1\dfs$\saleshomes
E:\DFS\salesprofiles is a symlink to the E:\UserData\Profiles\Sales folder - this is all shared as\\FILESERV1\dfs$\salesprofiles
These are not the only two folders in E:\DFS, however they are the only two ones that should be synced (either through\\FILESERV1\dfs$ or their direct share). I find Offline Files quite fiddly myself, so if someone could post something with some screenshots on setting this up and/or how to check that it's working correctly, that would be very much appreciated.